(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Flowering maple is an ever-blooming tender perennial or shrub that bears profuse small, showy, hibiscus-like flowers. The cultivar ‘Amsterdam’ is a vigorous selection with larger flowers of orange-red. Its maple-like leaves are evergreen to semi-evergreen, lightly fuzzy and green to gray-green.

It grows best in sites with part-sun and rich, well drained soil with even moisture. Use as a container plant or in mixed beds and borders.

(Bella Deep Coral Flowering Maple, Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple)

The Bella hybrids are unusually compact, mounding tender shrubs that are most commonly grown as bedding plants. Tropical in origin, they are evergreen and ever-blooming in frost-free zones and have large maple-like green leaves.

Rather than the traditional downward facing Abutilon flowers, those in the Bella Series face outward giving them a showier, more exotic look. The hibiscus-like flowers come in a wide range of colors including apricot, red, peach, rose, white and yellow.

These...

(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Abutilon, commonly called flowering maple, embodies approximately 150 species and many more cultivated varieties. These may be annuals, perennials or shrubs and naturally exist in sub-tropical to tropical regions globally. Many perennial species and shrubs are grown as a tender perennial for containers and annual flower beds. Common hybrid forms arise from crosses between the two parent species, Abutilon darwinii and Abutilon pictum.

While growing conditions are favorable abutilons...

(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Moonchimes Flowering Maple)

Flowering maple is an ever-blooming tender perennial or shrub that bears large, showy, bell-shaped and hibiscus-like flowers. The cultivar ‘Moonchimes’ is a vigorous selection with bright yellow nodding flowers. Its maple-like leaves are evergreen to semi-evergreen, lightly fuzzy and green to dark green.

It grows best in sites with part-sun and rich, well drained soil with even moisture. In areas that receive heavy winter frosts, it is best not to prune back dead foliage until early spring so...

(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Nabob Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Flowering maple is an ever-blooming shrub that bears many large, showy, hibiscus-like flowers. The hybrid cultivar ‘Nabob’ has an upright to spreading habit and very large nodding crimson flowers. Its robust, maple-like leaves are evergreen to semi-evergreen, lightly fuzzy and rich green.

This tough plant grows best in sites with partial sun and rich, well-drained soil with even moisture. In its northernmost range, it may die back to the ground much like an herbaceous perennial. In these conditions,...

(Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Abutilon, commonly called flowering maple, embodies approximately 150 species and many more cultivated varieties. These may be annuals, perennials or shrubs and naturally exist in sub-tropical to tropical regions globally. Many perennial species and shrubs are grown as a tender perennial for containers and annual flower beds. Common hybrid forms arise from crosses between the two parent species, Abutilon darwinii and Abutilon pictum.

While growing conditions are favorable abutilons...

(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Monarch Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Flowering maple is an ever-blooming shrub that bears many showy, hibiscus-like flowers. The hybrid ‘Red Monarch’ is a vigorous selection with smaller pendulous flowers. Each bloom has a prominent red calyx that surrounds golden yellow petals with orange veins. Its maple-like leaves are evergreen to semi-evergreen, lightly fuzzy and soft green.

This easy to cultivate plant grows best in sites with partial sun and rich, well-drained soil with even moisture. In its northernmost range, it may...

(Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

Abutilon, commonly called flowering maple, embodies approximately 150 species and many more cultivated varieties. These may be annuals, perennials or shrubs and naturally exist in sub-tropical to tropical regions globally. Many perennial species and shrubs are grown as a tender perennial for containers and annual flower beds. Common hybrid forms arise from crosses between the two parent species, Abutilon darwinii and Abutilon pictum.

While growing conditions are favorable abutilons...

(Flowering Maple, Parlour Maple)

One of the finest of the variegated flowering maples, 'Savitzii' has greyish blue-green leaves with broad, irregular ivory margins. Mature specimens grow to be bushy, erect evergreen shrubs. Throughout the growing season they produce lots of nodding apricot pink flowers.

Abutilon, commonly called flowering maple, embodies approximately 150 species and many more cultivated varieties. These may be annuals, perennials or shrubs and naturally exist in sub-tropical to tropical regions globally....

(Chinese Lantern, Flowering Maple, Souvenir de Bonn Flowering Maple)

Variegated flowering maple is an ever-blooming tender perennial or shrub that bears profuse small, showy, hibiscus-like flowers. The cultivar ‘Souvenir de Bonn’ is a vigorous selection with nodding flowers of peach-orange with darker orange veins. Its maple-like leaves are evergreen to semi-evergreen, lightly fuzzy and green with light yellow or ivory edges.

It grows best in sites with part-sun and rich, well drained soil with even moisture. In areas that receive heavy winter frosts, it is best...